Kimiyo Mishima Exhibition （Nerima Art Museum）

Kimiyo Mishima Exhibition

Nerima Art Museum

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Kimiyo Mishima

Kimiyo Mishima (1932–) began her career as a contemporary artist in the 1950s, starting with painting. In the 1960s, she created works collaging printed materials such as newspapers and magazines and flat works using silkscreen. However, in the 1970s, he shifted her expression medium to create three-dimensional works called "Cracking Prints," where printed materials were transferred onto ceramics using silkscreen and then fired, attracting significant attention. By combining printed materials overflowing with vast amounts of information and ceramics, a material that appears rigid and stable but is fragile and prone to cracking, Mishima expressed the fear and anxiety of being submerged in the flood of information. However, as vast quantities of newspapers and magazines quickly became consumed and turned into waste, Mishima's awareness gradually shifted from information to waste. She began producing works that reproduced everyday waste such as empty cans and cardboard in ceramics, as well as works using melted slag processed from industrial waste at high temperatures. In recent years, she has also been incorporating scrap iron and waste materials she collected into hew artwork.

This exhibition provides an overview of Mishima's creative trajectory over 70 years through her major works. While casting a critical eye on consumer society and the information society, Mishima's work, which transforms information and waste into sculptural expressions through estrangement, has been created with a playful spirit from everyday life. At the venue, among early collage works, various "Cracking Prints" objects, and recent works made with environmentally friendly materials, Mishima's representative work and largest-scale installation piece, "Memory of the 20th Century," will be exhibited as a highlight. This work, consisting of a large number of fireproof brick blocks densely laid on the floor, features newspaper articles Mishima extracted from the 20th century transcribed onto the surface of each brick, literally visualizing fragments of the memory of the 20th century while also seemingly engraving Mishima's memory of facing that era.

Although Mishima's works are housed in many museums domestically and internationally, particularly since 2020, she has received numerous awards and exhibitions, and her reputation has been rapidly rising not only domestically but also internationally. This exhibition marks her first solo exhibition in a Tokyo museum amidst this trend. This exhibition aims to reveal the entirety of Mishima's world of works, which she has consistently pursued under the theme of information and waste while observing the reality of society, and approaching its charm and true nature.

Schedule

May 19 (Sun) 2024-Jul 7 (Sun) 2024